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Packing Bacon

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Description: Three women packing "All Good" brand bacon.
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Typesetters at International Harvester Press

Date: 1947
Description: Two men operating monotype keyboards at International Harvester Press. The paper-punched product later goes through a caster, which makes new type to print...
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Analyzing Composition of Cement

Date: 09 20 1956
Description: Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement.
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Electronic Voltametric Apparatus

Date: 08 27 1982
Description: Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re...
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Female Employees Operating Machines at IHC's Chatham Works

Date: 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of female workers operating machines at International Harvester's Chatham Works in Ontario, Canada. The factory was originally owned...
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Machine Operator at Indianapolis Works

Date: 10 1938
Description: Factory worker using a lathe at International Harvester's Indianapolis Truck Engine Works. Original caption reads: "LeBlond crankshaft lathe showing detail...
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Skilled Hands at Work

Date: 01 27 1968
Description: Woman working on a wire harness for the lunar module section of an Apollo spacecraft at the AC Electronics division of General Motors Corp. plant.
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Woman in War Work Window Display

Date: 1944
Description: Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce...
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Home Workshop

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Description: A man cuts a block of wood on a table saw in his workshop.
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Working the Linotype

Date: 1950
Description: A woman types text into a linotype machine.
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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Working at the Parker Pen Factory

Date: 10 16 1952
Description: A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory.
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Ethel Anderson, Linotype Operator

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated.
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Milwaukee Works Employees Working on Diesel Engine

Date: 11 18 1937
Description: Two factory workers drill and grind valve slats into a diesel engine at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones.
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Milwaukee Works Employee Reams Crankcases

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker reams Diesel engine crankcases at Milwaukee Works.
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Internal Grinding of Tractor Roller Shell

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker operates a machine that grinds the inside of a TracTractor (crawler tractor) track roller shell at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don ...
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Primary Drive

Date: 05 31 1968
Description: Primary drive that was manufactured in the Special High Speed Division. This drive was later purchased and used by the Vertol Division/Boeing Corporation. ...
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Door-Window Test Machine

Date: 12 20 1943
Description: Louis Graves uses a door-window regulator test machine in the truck engineering department. The original caption reads: "This door-window regulator test ma...
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Woman Inspecting a Gear Reducer

Date: 1978
Description: Lynnette Hartwig, a Falk employee, inspects a gear. This unit was later purchased by the Wisconsin Bearing Company. Original Falk caption reads: "Illustrat...
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Female Factory Worker at West Pullman Works

Date: 1947
Description: A female factory worker machines a part in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works.

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